So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
2007-09-30 16:45:59 · 20 answers · asked by Stigette Of The Dump 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes.
+ Heaven +
Heaven is eternal life with God; communion of life and love with the Trinity and all the blessed.
Heaven is the state of supreme and definitive happiness, the goal of the deepest longings of humanity.
+ Hell +
Hell is the state of complete and final self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed, reserved for those who refuse by their own free choice to believe and be converted from sin, even to the end of their lives
No one really knows what hell is like. It has been described by people who have not been there as everything from flames to a frozen lake (Dante).
+ Heaven vs. Hell +
A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, "Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like." The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew which smelled delicious and made the holy man's mouth water.
The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles that were strapped to their arms and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, but because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths. The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering. The Lord said, "You have seen Hell."
They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same as the first one. There was the large round table with the large pot of stew which made the holy man's mouth water. The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here the people were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking.
The holy man said, "I don't understand."
"It is simple" said the Lord, "it requires but one skill. You see, they have learned to feed each other, while the greedy think only of themselves."
For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 1023 and following: http://www.nccbuscc.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art12.htm#1023
With love in Christ.
2007-09-30 17:24:04 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Interesting , Imacatholic2 (above )states no one really knows what hell is like because no one has seen it . Yet Imacatholic belives in God , and Jesus as God , the existance of heaven and hell , and lots of other things that have never been seen . Isn't this contradiction an indication of an obsession ?
And this poster makes about 20 religious answer posts a day for the past 17 months . ( Obsessed ? ) And he has a 41% best answer rating ? ( talk about preaching to the choir ! ) .
2007-09-30 18:06:56 · answer #2 · answered by allure45connie 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Another year has passed me by
Still I look a myself and cry
What kind of man have I become?
All of the years I've spent in search of myself
And I'm still in the dark
'Cause I can't seem to find the light alone
Sometimes I feel like a man in the wilderness
I'm a lonely soldier off to war
Sent away to die - never quite knowing why
Sometimes it makes no sense at all
Ten Thousand people look my way
But they can't see the way that I feel
Nobody even cares to try
I spend my life and sell my soul on the road
And I'm still in the dark
'Cause I can't seem to find the light alone
Sometimes I feel like a man in the wilderness
I'm a lonely soldier lost at sea
Drifting with the tide
Never quite knowing why
Sometimes it makes no sense at all
(I'm alive)
Looking for love I'm a man with emotion
(And my heart's on fire)
I'm dying of thirst in the middle of the ocean
I'm alive!
2007-09-30 16:50:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anne Hatzakis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shayna,
The Christian seeks to be in Heaven and those who are not do not intend to live there at all. Heaven is our home, all other living quarters are just temporary sites of residence. I will never exchange Heaven for anything taht you or anyone else has to offer me. I hope that eventually you are able to say the same. Have a wonderful week!
Thanks,
Eds
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2007-09-30 16:57:25 · answer #4 · answered by Eds 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The lyrics to a Pink Floyd song, okay. Any question?
2007-09-30 16:49:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Both Heaven and Hell are here on Earth. Where else would they be?
2007-10-01 08:04:33 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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green eggs and ham, I will not eat them Sam I am.
Matt 25
Luke 16:19-31
1 & 2 Thes
2007-09-30 17:39:35 · answer #7 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love that song
2007-10-01 02:41:36 · answer #8 · answered by the_end_of_the_cons 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pink floyd
2007-10-04 00:15:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
so you think you can ask a real question
something we can answer
can you think you opinion will be questioned
for right or wrong.
yada yada
2007-09-30 17:45:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋